Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Difference between revisions
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* ''[[wikipedia:Mr Midshipman Easy|Mr. Midshipman Easy]]'' by Frederick Marryat is a near-contemporary example, and probably set the tone for most of the later works in this vein.
* The sections concerning the people of the Iron Islands in [[A Song of Ice and Fire]], especially those that take place on boats, come across like this. Bonus points for them being called the Iron Men.
* Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet's poem "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140314134058/http://www.constitutional.net/099.html Clipper Ships and Captains]" is an ode to this period, even going so far as to include the lines:
{{quote|When the best ships still were wooden ships
But the men were iron men. }}
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